RESUMEN
This study was carried out to identify the relationships among social support, degree of perceived threat and coping in adult clients with functional disabilities. Forty individuals with hemiplegia, paraplegia and quadriplegia were interviewed as regards their perceived availability and effectiveness of social support, their coping behavior and effectiveness, their estimation of the degree of a faced threat and the felt personal constraints. Results showed that the perceived availability of social support had a significant positive relation to both of problem solving and social coping which indirectly affected coping effectiveness. The findings suggested that physicians and nurses should emphasize these clients problem solving coping methods